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Re:Bitcoin Is Civilization on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:18PM (#28710838)
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Why do they keep feeling the need to defend and evangelize bitcoin?

If it's useful, people who find it useful will use it and their lives will improve... people who don't find it useful won't use it and their lives will be unaffected.

If the deviation between these two groups gets too wide, you will recruit users because the facts on the ground will make the benefits obvious.

Nobody went around shilling for Amazon in the late 90s. Nobody went around shilling for Google in the early 2000's.

Go build something useful and shut up until it's done.

Re:Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain (2017) on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:41PM (#27835836)
Try my podcast. It’s as balanced as I could make it. Start from the bottom. Thanks!

https://pointbite.podbean.com/

I personally get bored by names that accurately describe the main feature of the company. It seems entirely too technical and non-creative, my instinctual reaction is "how can people with no imagination create a product I will love?".
This is the core of what makes our app unique and we plan to spend a lot of time making it smart. It's still a work in progress, I typically compare it to google's search engine in that 15 years later they are still making it better. I suspect the same for our thought analysis engine, it will never be perfect. But it does work.
I have never met Tyler. I said hi to Jason once but never had a conversation with him. I have exchanged a few emails but I doubt that's the problem. I hope not anyway, it never crossed my mind.
We almost called the app WeLiveNow which is along the lines of what he suggested. But honestly I'm still leaning in favor of LucidLife, for the reasons I discussed in the video. It really grabs people's attention and holds their interest.

Thank you for saying I shouldn't be embarrassed but I still am haha. I guess life as an entrepreneur is filled with failure so I should get used to this feeling. Probably will be good for me in the long run.

I'll be back to answer any questions in an hour.
Re:Chrome overtake Firefox in Marketshare on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:06PM (#7513301)
My initial reaction was surprise that so many people still use IE, then I remembered that my dad still uses it. I'll blame him.

My pitch just got massacred on This Week in Startups. Very embarrassing. AMA

So very embarrassing...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ky4ikcCoL0#t=18m10sKey takeaways for me:(1) Describe the product in the first sentence.(2) Less narrative more use cases.(3) Talk more about the people I'm pitching to and less about myself.Any more feedback? Jason and Tyler were pretty comprehensive but I really wish I had more time to discuss their points, some of them I agree with but...

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